An investigation by Climate Home News shows how World Bank guarantees are being used to help green luxury hotels in Africa, while vulnerable communities don't get funding to adapt to climate warming. buff.ly/3UlQGsR

Story by Matteo Civillini & Jack Thompson.

As we find that World Bank is fudging the numbers to include luxury hotel renovations as 'climate finance', the World Bank has won $11 bn in pledges for climate projects ie more of the same... and money far from reaching the most vulnerable Climate Home News
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Ahead of #WBGMeetings , a Climate Home News investigation finds $190 million in World Bank climate finance going to green chain hotels in Africa, while rising sea levels displace communities nearby.

Brilliant work by Matteo Civillini and Jack Thompson climatechangenews.com/2024/04/16/wor…

Where is the World Bank's climate finance going in Senegal?

Refurbishment of a luxury resort, majority-owned by the Qatari government ✅

A fishing village just down the coast, whose beach is dissapearing❌

✍️: Jack Thompson Matteo Civillini

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Joe Stanley 🇺🇦 Makes Jack Thompson's investigation into fried chicken shops for Wicked Leeks all the more prescient. Several of them bought from one supplier, which imported from Poland. wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/falli…

If you caught our Financial Times visual investigation on the hidden cost of supermarket salmon, Feedback have now found the same salmon is being served at Wagamama's. If you missed our piece on how farmed salmon is damaging food security in West Africa:
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⚠️ The salmon served at wagamama uk restaurants is contributing to a food crisis in West Africa.

We need your help to stop it.

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Today we Al Jazeera English published a crucial investigation by Andrei Popoviciu and @joseantonio_BG on how an elite security outfit created and funded by the EU to fight cross-border crime in the Sahel, was repurposed to crush citizen protests in Senegal.

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Check this out from Financial Times:
The hidden cost of your supermarket salmon
Fish sold by major retailers in Europe is harming food security in west Africa ig.ft.com/supermarket-sa… Alexandra Heal Lucy Rodgers Jack Thompson

Great to see our new Feedback Feedback EU report in Financial Times today! Most retailers in the Netherlands and UK sell #salmon produced with fish oil from #WestAfrica Albert Heijn Aldi Stores UK Jumbo Supermarkten PLUS Nieuws Tesco @LidlGB

Fish sold by major retailers is harming food security in west Africa.

The amount of fish it takes to feed 33mn people is instead ground up for other farmed fish such as salmon to keep up with demand in Europe and China on.ft.com/3SiLseZ

NEW: Salmon sold by major supermarkets in Europe is harming food security in west Africa. This is how.

Visual investigation by Alexandra Heal Lucy Rodgers Justine Williams Irene de la Torre Arenas Dan Clark Jack Thompson Guy Peterson and Ely Cheikh Mohamed Vadel.

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NEW: Know where your supermarket salmon comes from? What it’s being fed on?

It could well be bred on ground up whole fish from West Africa, an industry decimating fish stocks in a region that vitally needs them.

Here’s how:

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Excellent digging from Alexandra Heal and teamwork from the A-list of Justine Williams Dan Clark and Irene de la Torre Arenas + field reporting from Jack Thompson Guy Peterson and Ely Cheikh Mohamed Vadel

NEW: Factories in west Africa are grinding up reams of whole fish into flour & oil — snatching away food from a region that vitally needs it.

For the first time, we traced the salmon fed this stuff to shelves of UK retailers inc Tesco, Aldi, Lidl & Asda

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With intrepid on-ground reporting from Jack Thompson and Ely Cheikh Mohamed Vadel revealing corruption and rule-breaking in the industry in Mauritania, one of the region's key production hubs.

And arresting photography from Guy Peterson